Bombshell: Twitter, Google Admit Deliberately
Censoring News

“Fake news” being used as a weaponized term
to bury opposing viewpoints

During a House Intelligence Committee hearing
into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election, Twitter
General Counsel Sean Edgett brazenly admitted that Twitter censors
Infowars stories in favor of mainstream media.

Edgett was asked by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) why an
Infowars
story about New York Mayor Mike De Blasio ignoring warnings from
an Imam about terrorist radicalization in New York appeared at the
top of the #NYCTerroristAttack hashtag during the vehicle attack in
Manhattan last week.

“This is a real-time example of when we talk about
this information being weaponized, how quickly can you act and what’s
your responsibility to set the record straight so that the people who
saw this know that it’s fake news?” asked Quigley, adding that
Twitter needed to prevent Infowars “spreading like some sort of
virus through the legitimate world.”

Twitter Sean Edgett responded by telling Quigley,
“The system self-corrected, that shouldn’t be the first tweet you
see anymore, it should be a USA Today article,” before going on to
assure the Congressman that only “verified accounts” and
“accurate information and reporting” (in other words mainstream
media only) would be seen in future.

Infowars was also attacked on Sunday when the media started a
pressure campaign to have Google de-list my tweets from appearing in
search results about breaking news stories. Google
responded by saying they would “make some changes” to ensure
this didn’t happen again.

The New York Times contacted me for a comment and I
made it clear that there is no “strategy” for getting my tweets
to the top of Google’s rankings – I am simply interesting and
have a lot of followers. The threat of a different perspective is so
threatening to the MSM and the left that they are now directly
demanding tech companies bury our content in real time.

He also felt that De Blasio ignored his warnings
because he was too busy wasting “all his energy and resources in
trying to bring down President Trump and not Islamic Extremists.”

Not a single aspect of this story is “fake news,”
it simply makes De Blasio look bad – and that’s the point.

As Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) pointed out in the
hearing, “fake news” is completely subjective. “How in the
world do you intend to identify fake news without weaponizing this in
the political realm?” he asked.

The entire “fake news” moral panic was an
invention of the Democrats as an excuse because they lost the
election, when in reality, a Stanford
University study found that fake news (actual fake news websites
publishing made up stories) did not influence the election and that
the most widely believed fake news stories actually benefited Hillary
Clinton.

Fake news is a weapon being used by the left to push
censorship of anything that challenges their dogma or debunks their
arguments, and Silicon Valley has indicated its willingness to jump
in bed with Democrats to ensure that very outcome.